Shane Black Directing Predator Sequel!

[Schlosser85]

Munn was a glorified stuntwoman in X-Men: Apocalypse, so I had no opinion of her one way or another.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Is the reason why people don't take Munn seriously because she was a host on Attack of the Show? And that's how people were exposed to her first? I mean... I can assume she was always an actress who did a gig.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Is 50 cent in the cast too?

This has to be the worst cast ever.

Predator 1 and 2 had the perfect B-actors.

This current cast is an insult.

 

[Manofplastic]

where did you get that fiddy is in there?

perhaps predz gonna crash a 50-concert. that would be interesting.

 

[MadVillainy]

Munn was a glorified stuntwoman in X-Men: Apocalypse, so I had no opinion of her one way or another.

Which is funny considering that she was like: "I didn't just wanna be the girlfriend in Deadpool"

And then she played the near mute and as you put it glorified stuntwoman with an unnecessarily stripperific costume in Apocalypse.

Is 50 cent in the cast too?

This has to be the worst cast ever.

Predator 1 and 2 had the perfect B-actors.

This current cast is an insult.

lol an insult to what? Don't be melodramatic.

So of the 3 actors reportedly cast.
-Boyd Holbrook, good in Narcos
-Olivia Munn, good in The Newsroom
-And 50 whos not a great actor but is decent in Power and besides he's going to get killed anyway

98% of the actors are just going to be fodder to be killed anyway.

A Predator movie doesn't require great actors and so far we already have 2 good actors cast. And we have Shane Black at the helm. He hasnt directed a straight bad movie. (Mightve just jinxed them there though.) His worst to me is Iron Man 3 which is not terrible or even bad to me. I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt rather than complain because the movie doesn't have the "perfect B-actors"

 

[Manofplastic]

Though 50 isn't the most popular around these days, it could be a decent move from Black to get some awareness on the movie from certain interest groups that would be motivated to raise their interest because 50 is in it. He's not a supreme actor but he's decent enough. Anybody who watched his movie about getting sick just shows his dedication. Hardly recognisable.
Meanwhile, he can do away with him fast if he wants to. Like I said, he can be simply be 50 the artist performing a concert just before or while all hell breaks loose.

Matter of fact, it could actually be 50 who's going to find himself in the wrong place in the wrong time and get killed by a predator, causing the police to investigate this high-profile murder which gets media attention all around offcourse but FBI doesn't want the public to know he was killed by a Yautja alien.

This would make it comparable to Predator 2 - not bad neccesarily.

But the story can go several directions still with that.

Also, with the current affairs in the US; presidential campaigns with people on their edge, rioting against cold-blooded murder of african-american civillians by police officers, that would be a good backdrop for the movie's settings.

The Predator was drawn to heat and conflict.

It being a worldwide event could sugges Black brings the Predator to the battlefields in Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan, having soldiers killed and skinned, and now all of a sudden the same killing happens in certain areas in the US.

 

[Brian Braddock]

Funny, I watched Apocalypse only last night and I didnt see this 'near mute' that people are referring to; Munn had lines and delivered them just fine. She didnt have many lines, granted, but she did have them. For the record, I love (in more ways than one!) Munn and welcome her involvement in this.

 

[nite-owl]

Larry Fong is going to be the cinematographer.

 

[Octoberist]

Good choice. It's gonna look damn good.

 

[dark_b]

if its Fong i think this confirms that it will be shot on film. Shane Black is not a technical guy so if it would be a digital camera with a mediocre cinematographer it could look bad. Predator will have a lot of night shots and for that you need deep blacks. The movie should look amazing.

 

[Octoberist]

Fong shot Kong on digital so he knows what he's doing. But it's up to Black, who has worked with digital before with The Nice Guys (which looked great) and Iron Man 3 (which was sorta ugly).

 

[dark_b]

you are right. looks like it was shot on the Alexa. Kong Skull Island looks good.

i just need deep dark blacks in a predator movie. Fong is good with lighting and he knows how to light for dark and at the same time tell a story.

 

[Octoberist]

Alexa is the way to go. There are many films that I thought was shot on film that were shot on Alexa so the bridge is closing the gap with every year.

It's just that movies like 'Allied' look like crap, and that was clearly digital.

 

[dude stannis]

I hope he keeps up with the renaissance imagery.

I'm guessing Super 8 got him the gig.

 

[Inhuman117]

Maybe The Story will Suck but at least the Movie will look Fantastic

 

[Teelie]

Shane Black is writing it so I doubt it will be a bad story.

 

[Octoberist]

It'll be entertaining.

I'm still iffy on Boyd Holbrook as the lead here. By all means, I liked him in Narcos, but he seems like one of these actors who's good in very specific roles, like a Jai Courtney, John Carter Kitch or Sam Worthington, but not leading man material.

Also, he seems to be an amalgamation of Ryan Gosling and Garett Hudlund.

The good news is that Shane can push him to make the role unique, like how he was able to push Gosling to embrace a more goofy side.

 

[Gabe99]

AICN:
Muldoon Chats Monster Making and Explosions with THE MONSTER's Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff!

Hello ladies and gentlemen, Muldoon here with an all too brief chat with Alec Gillis and Tom Woodroff. While you might not necessarily know their names, you know their work as they've created Aliens (literally helped build Aliens in Cameron's ALIENS), helped you believe a robot from the future could travel back in time to take out Linda Hamilton, and have designed The Predator creatures for years. In my eyes, these two are the cream of the crop, artists who stand at the same level as folks like Shannon Shea or Greg Nicotero... No doubt are these two individuals men who have more stories than you can imagine about how they helped bring so many pieces of rubber to life, but alas the opportunity to pick their brains came as a result of their latest endeavor, Bryan Bertino's THE MONSTER, and as such - out of respect for that opportunity, I pretty much stuck with questions about that specific film. If you haven't already, just click over on Alec or Tom's IMDB page and get a feel for their individual contributions to movies as we all know them. Having seen THE MONSTER, I can attest that it's not your typical monster movie. It's a film that's dark and hard to watch at times, and ultimately has one hell of a cool creature! (Go figure!) The film is currently in theaters and On Demand, so if you're into badass monsters, think about watching that bit of nightmare fuel from Bertino and company!

 

[Octoberist]

Speaking of Larry Fong, here's the cute origin of how Larry met JJ Abrams:

In the late 1970s, when cinematographer Larry Fong was just a teenager, he loved to make movies on Super 8, the favorite home movie format of that time. One day, while shooting a film outside a friend’s house, a neighbor kid – also a Super 8 fan – came from across the street, wanting to get involved.

“He kept coming over and bugging us, because we were a couple years older,” Fong laughs. “That’s how I met J.J.”

http://www.icgmagazine.com/web/mystery-train/

 

[Roose Bolton]

It'll be entertaining.

I'm still iffy on Boyd Holbrook as the lead here. By all means, I liked him in Narcos, but he seems like one of these actors who's good in very specific roles, like a Jai Courtney, John Carter Kitch or Sam Worthington, but not leading man material.

Also, he seems to be an amalgamation of Ryan Gosling and Garett Hudlund.

The good news is that Shane can push him to make the role unique, like how he was able to push Gosling to embrace a more goofy side.

I thought he was perfectly fine in A Walk Amongst the Tombstones.

 

[Octoberist]

I need to see that.

 

[Roose Bolton]

You certainly do, and not just for Holbrook.

 

[Fallen Angel]

'Moonlight' Star Trevante Rhodes Joins Shane Black's 'The Predator' (Exclusive) http://thr.cm/wzSh8S

Trevante Rhodes, one of the stars of Moonlight, has joined the cast of Shane Black’s The Predator, Twentieth Century Fox’s reboot of the alien action movie series.
Rhodes would join Boyd Holbrook, who is leading an ensemble that also includes Olivia Munn.


Black is directing the project and wrote the script with Fred Dekker.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the story sees the popular stalker alien, first seen in the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger pic titled simply Predator, in an environment that audiences have not seen: the suburbs. Rhodes will play the best friend of Holbrook's character; both are said to be ex-Marines.

 

[Octoberist]

I wish Rhodes was THE star, and Holbrook playing the best friend type. Nothing against Holbrook.

 

[dark_b]

ex-marines. interesting